New year, new songs, new reflections and awareness, finally new hope. Here are my favorite songs of the 2021 winter months (January, February, March 2021).
Naturally, quite a few of the music that came out at the beginning of the year has been influenced by the more solitary, introspective, even anxiety-driven life that most of us have lived over the last year. But there’s also always just great dancing, running, and singing-along music. Thankfully!
Photo of raccoon taken in the Boyd Hill woods along Lake Maggiore in St. Pete, Florida.
List of my favorite songs of the 1st quarter of 2021:
1. Serotonin – girl in red
2. Keeps Me Running – Esther Rose
3. FTW – Red Rosamond
4. Spiral – Remix – Kaela
5. Best Friend (feat. Doja Cat) – Saweetie
6. I’m A King (with Megan Thee Stallion) – Bobby Sessions
7. Sick and Tired – workfriends
8. Love Is a Punk – Louisahhh
9. knuckle tattoo – girlhouse
10. Come Give Me Love – First Aid Kit
11. Ten Feet Tall – Charlie Hickey
12. Waterfalls (TLC cover) – Death Cab for Cutie
13. Guard Down – Claud
14. Let It All Go – Francis of Delirium
15. beauty – awakebutstillinbed
16. together, alone – Elizabeth & the Catapult
17. Copper Kettle – Jake Xerxes Fussell
18. Headsick (feat. Manchester Orchestra) – USERx
19. Turnaround (Cocaine Song) – Tōth
20. Bad News – lostboy
21. Questions – Middle Kids
22. Hardline – Julien Baker
23. Summer’s End (John Prine cover) – Phoebe Bridgers
24. Thumbs – Lucy Dacus
25. Hard Drive – Cassandra Jenkins
26. Sunset – Jaguar Sun
You can listen to the entire 1st Quarter of 2021 mix on Spotify.